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Matthew Payne
Texas songwriter and Americana artist Matthew Payne grew up in the beautiful hill country surrounding Dripping Springs. He spent two decades teaching high school English and Creative Writing, and loved every minute of it. He's currently writing and playing music full-time with an incredible band, including Tony Perez on fiddle. “Payne’s poetic Americana is salt of the Earth, evocative of both his Dripping Springs upbringing and nearly two decades as an English and creative writing teacher here in Austin. And with a stage roster that includes Hole In the Wall, Saxon Pub, and the Cactus Cafe, Payne truly is Austin Americana timelessness personified,” says Taylor Wallace-Riegel, KUTX Austin. Sometimes folk, sometimes country, and sometimes blues, his debut album “Better Times” is about the stories, in the end. It fuses the Texas songwriter tradition with Appalachia, pulling hill country poetry into old-time country and blues with fresh insight. "Payne seems like he’s sat down at a bar after hours on the road, regaling barflies with an overture of the epic of where he’s been. We get the highlights, but we also know one question will lead to a shower of tales, and his impassioned storytelling, punctuated with a driving, honky tonk rhythm, makes us want to ask the bartender for another boilermaker for ourselves and one for our new friend.
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